The country’s foremost economic event, Sri Lanka Economic Summit (SLES) 2018 was held for the 18th time on the theme, “On the Fast Track to a Turnaround” at Cinnamon Grand Colombo. This event organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC).

Recently I had conducted Azure Machine Learning workshop at Jakarta, in partnership with Algoritma Indonesia. Around 10 attended the workshop. Employees from Telkomsel, Government Universities and few other companies attended the workshop.

In this one day workshop students will learn how to design and develop services that access local and remote data from various cloud platforms. Students will also learn different technologies associated with Microsoft cloud, Amazon Web Services and IBM cloud.

Overview of service and cloud technologies

· Key Components of Distributed Applications

· Data and Data Access Technologies

· Service Technologies

· Cloud Computing

Creating and consuming ASP.NET Web API services

· What are HTTP services?

· Creating an ASP.NET Web API service

· Handling HTTP requests and responses

· Hosting and consuming ASP.NET Web API services

Windows Azure Storage

· Introduction to Windows Azure Storage

· Windows Azure Blob Storage

· Windows Azure Table Storage

· Windows Azure Queue Storage

AN INTRODUCTION TO AMAZON WEB SERVICES

· A background of AWS and its needs

· The AWS Management Console

· AWS security measures

· AWS interaction through the SDK and IDE tools

· WORKING WITH AWS STORAGE SERVICES

· AWS storage options

· Working with Amazon EBS

· Working with AWS Glacier

MANAGED SERVICES AND THE DATABASES

· Amazon DynamoDB

· Amazon RDS Database

· tools and libraries DynamoDB local

AN INTRODUCTION TO IBM Cloud

· IBM Cloud technologies

· Management Console

· Security measures

· Cloud interaction through the SDK and IDE tools

· IBM Watson Studio

Conducted By-

Uditha Bandara (MVP) is specializes in Microsoft development , AI, Mobile App, Cloud and Software Testing technologies. He is the South East Asia`s First XNA/DirectX MVP (Most Valuable Professional). He had delivered sessions at various events and conferences in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. He has published several books, articles, tutorials, and demos on his Blog – https://uditha.wordpress.com

Introduction

In this section, we make a brief introduction to React Native. We set up machines for all the people that haven’t done that yet. By the end, attendees can create a new project, run it and understand tools available.

Back to JavaScript

In this section, we go through latest ES6/ES7 features that were added, like import / export syntax or fat arrow functions. We also cover basics of React (or just refresh them for people already experienced), like component lifecycle and/or JSX. All these are run and live tested on an app set up in the previous section.

– List all `ES6` and `ES7` features (one per slide, w/o going into details)

– Explain how the code is transpiled

– Explain JSX

– React Component lifecycle

– Open discussion about other features

– A couple of exercises to make everyone comfortable with React / JavaScript

Core components

In this section, we cover the basic components, like `<View />` & `<Touchable />`.

– Describe all core components and their `props`

– A couple of exercises based on default `init` template:

– Add few buttons and test out handlers (with `bind` preferably)

– Add a bunch of different `<View />`s

Styling

In this section, we, describe `StyleSheet` API, how it implements flexbox and how’s that different from CSS.

– Describe StyleSheet, what are available values, how it works

– Demonstrate `Flexbox`

– Mention that there are UI kits, but we are not going to use them as it’s too advanced for now

– Mention that there are cross-platform styling techniques, like styled-components one can use

– A bunch of exercises to get attendees more familiar with the styling, esp.:

– Flexbox and its properties – implement column/grid layout as presented on a slide

– <Text /> number of lines

Navigation

In this section, we demonstrate basic concepts of navigation. We also brief attendees into how’s JS navigation different from fully native one. We list available alternatives as well what we will use throughout today.

– List available navigation solutions

– Brief readers into the one that was selected

– Make them aware of the API and how to think of the route hierarchy

– A couple of exercises working on current `init` template, e.g convert app to a stack, so we can push a new route

Lists

In this section, we describe lists and why they are so important in React Native. We describe available alternatives and list how’s `<ScrollView />` different than `<FlatList /> (and <SectionList />)` and when to use each.

– List available scroll solutions

– Explain when to use each

– Describe performance optimizations

– Warn about common pitfalls / issues

– As a demo task, one can create a view that has a list of contacts and each of them can be tapped to move to a new screen (with details)

Cross Platform APIs

We will discuss and implement the most used React Native APIs that work cross platform

IOS specific APIs

We will discuss and implement the most used iOS specific React Native APIs

Android specific APIs

We will discuss and implement the most used Android specific React Native APIs

Persistence

In this section, we describe how persistence is done with React Native and how it can be achieved using other technologies.

– Demonstrate persistence using AsyncStorage

– Exercise attendees to persist stuff (literal, more advanced JSON)

– Demonstrate available APIs, like `multiSet` and when it’s better to use what – Mention other tools like `realm`

Animations

In this section, we will examine different approaches to animating elements within the app. Specifically, we will check `LayoutAnimation` API and the better – `Animated`. We will briefly talk about performance concerns as well.